Ralph Lauren quietly shuttered its two-year-old 20,000-square-foot store last week. Other brands are expected to close boutiques in a city that has lost its luster for cash-rich mainland Chinese tourists.

MODEL CITIZEN:Cindy Crawford is about to take on another title: author. In fall 2015, the supermodel will release a book with Rizzoli about her career and the lessons she’s learned. “It’s not just a coffee-table book with images, although that will be part of it,” said Crawford. “It’s not a biography. It’s sort of a hybrid book. It’ll come out in the fall before I turn 50, so it’s kind of a way to celebrate turning 50 as opposed to dreading it.”

Besides her book, Crawford is busy building her skin-care line, Meaningful Beauty. On Wednesday morning at Warren Tricomi in New York at an event for beauty editors, she introduced a new treatment for lifting and filling. “Beauty changes as I get older,” she said. “I’ve always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that’s what people see. I always tell people to fake it until they make it.”

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